Are nurse anaesthetists needed? Should the Nursing Council endorse nurse practitioners in anaesthesia? One leading anaesthesia specialist argues against nurse practitioners as providers of anaesthesia services.(VIEWPOINT) Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (4/1/2005)
...otherwise) of NPs in anaesthesia. The society is also...forward our views, so nurses can be clear about...independent NPs in anaesthesia (nurse practitioner[TM...these areas, should a nurse wish to set up and...specialised and quality anaesthesia services already provided...can be ...

Non-physician anaesthesia in the UK: a history.(EDUCATION AND PRACTICE)(Report) Journal of Perioperative Practice (4/1/2007)
...American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA...Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs...become a CRNA, qualified nurses must undertake two years...of the 'hands on' anaesthesia care in the US (AANA...American centres where nurse anaesthetists were practising as members of an ...

Anaesthesia underpins acute patient care in hospitals Australian Health Review (4/1/2007)
...published jointly by French anaesthesia and intensive care organisations...the projected decline in anaesthesia resources and canvassed solutions...school output. The role of nurses in anaesthesia in The Netherlands and Sweden...introduction of advanced nurse practitioners should take...

Anaesthesia for phacoemulsification surgery: is it as comfortable as we think?(CLINICAL FEATURE)(Clinical report) Journal of Perioperative Practice (1/1/2010)
...needles are used and retrobulbar anaesthesia has gone out of vogue due...to find which type of local anaesthesia (topical vs subtenon vs peribulbar...questionnaire which was asked by a nurse whilst the patient was in...2nd eye surgery, type of anaesthesia, surgeon's grade and visual...

Theoretical and practical aspects of anaesthesia for thoracic surgery.(ANAESTHESIA) Journal of Perioperative Practice (3/1/2008)
...department practitioners, nurses and physiotherapists involved...substantially add to the risks of anaesthesia resulting from trauma to the...necessitate tracheostomy under local anaesthesia. Likewise, anaesthesia and paralysis with subsequent...

COMPOUND HELPS MAKE ANAESTHESIA TRULY PAINLESS.(Local) Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) (12/23/1987)
...they go crazy," said Janet Robinson, a nurse at Albany's St. Peter's Hospital...Peter's Hospital, emergency- room nurses no longer have to chase trembling toddlers...there becomes this ugly fight between the nurse and the doctor and the parents and the...my God, you're hurting him.' The nurse is ...

Debating international workforce issues: the International Council of Nurses' workforce forum provides an opportunity for representatives of national nursing associations to share initiatives and ideas, and consider solutions.(INDUSTRIAL FOCUS) Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (11/1/2008)
...overtime, high use of agency nurses, expansion of the rote of the nurse, on-call/standby provisions...Global competition for nurses, privatisation Of aged care...psychiatric, intensive care and anaesthesia nurses. In Ireland, a special...

The case for nurse anaesthetists.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor) Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (6/1/2005)
...analysis comparing anaesthesia providers--nurse versus doctor...for evidence that nurses couldn't do the...Part of becoming a nurse practitioner...s first NP in anaesthesia will no doubt have...possibility that nurses could fulfil this...of physician and nurse ...

Perioprative nurses' conference aimed to dispel practice myths.(SECTION/COLLEGE NEWS) Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (10/1/2005)
...Motivation". More than 250 nurses attended the conference...on the panel were post-anaesthesia care unit nurse Diana Jensen, anaesthetic...conference were Auckland nurses Joanne Agnew, Prue Hames and Palmerston North nurse Bettina Marenzi, who each...was won by Hawke's Bay nurse Jo ...